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Earth globe after Georg Christoph Eimmart. Nuremberg, 1705, facsimile Christian Nebehay, Vienna 1958, labeled "L.F., Cum Geographica Orbis, Terrarum Descriptio secundum long.., et lat. non nisi vel per peregrinationes maritimas vel Observationes Coelestes emendatior in dies prodeat, istud autem per experimenta propria (quoad exiguam saltem partem) perfecisse e mille vix uni, contingat; Oportuit nos Recentiorum, accuratissimis Observationibus insistere, et quatenus cum Veritate congruant vel, discrepent exactiori Tuo iudicio relinquere. Nos eadem Loca, bona fide, nihil immutantes, prout ab Authoribus novissimis accepimus, Usui Tuo exhibemus. Norimbergae apud G.C. Eimartum. Ao. Chr. 1705", the globe as a plaster-covered papier-mâché sphere covered with 12 printed and hand-colored paper segments, full circle meridian with 4 x 90° divisions, hour ring with 24-hour divisions, four-legged wooden stand with horizon ring, the paper overlay of the horizon ring with indications of cardinal points, zodiac signs and degree divisions. Diameter: approx. 30 cm. Height: approx. 47 cm. Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705), German mathematician, astronomer, painter and engraver, was the founder and director of the first Nuremberg observatory (1677/78). He designed globe segments for a terrestrial and celestial globe with a diameter of 30 cm, which were published in 1705, the year of his death, and only a few copies of which have survived. The Viennese publisher Nebehay produced facsimiles of these globes in 1958. Cf. literature: Allmayer-Beck, Modelle der Welt, Brandstätter 1997, p. 260 and Fauser, Ältere Erd- und Himmelsgloben in Bayern, 1964, p. 90ff. A terrestrial globe after Georg Christoph Eimmart. Nuremberg 1705, facsimile Christian Nebehay, Vienna 1958, signed "L.F., Cum Geographica Orbis, Terrarum Descriptio secundum, ., Usui Tuo exhibemus. Norimbergae apud G.C. Eimartum. Ao. Chr. 1705",12 printed and hand-colored globe gores mounted on plaster and cardboard sphere, graduated meridian circle, hour circle, four-legged wooden stand, the horizon with paper calendar showing the seasons, compass directions, zodiac, days and months. Diameter c. 30 cm, height c. 47 cm.
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Earth globe after Georg Christoph Eimmart. Nuremberg, 1705, facsimile Christian Nebehay, Vienna 1958, labeled "L.F., Cum Geographica Orbis, Terrarum Descriptio secundum long.., et lat. non nisi vel per peregrinationes maritimas vel Observationes Coelestes emendatior in dies prodeat, istud autem per experimenta propria (quoad exiguam saltem partem) perfecisse e mille vix uni, contingat; Oportuit nos Recentiorum, accuratissimis Observationibus insistere, et quatenus cum Veritate congruant vel, discrepent exactiori Tuo iudicio relinquere. Nos eadem Loca, bona fide, nihil immutantes, prout ab Authoribus novissimis accepimus, Usui Tuo exhibemus. Norimbergae apud G.C. Eimartum. Ao. Chr. 1705", the globe as a plaster-covered papier-mâché sphere covered with 12 printed and hand-colored paper segments, full circle meridian with 4 x 90° divisions, hour ring with 24-hour divisions, four-legged wooden stand with horizon ring, the paper overlay of the horizon ring with indications of cardinal points, zodiac signs and degree divisions. Diameter: approx. 30 cm. Height: approx. 47 cm. Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705), German mathematician, astronomer, painter and engraver, was the founder and director of the first Nuremberg observatory (1677/78). He designed globe segments for a terrestrial and celestial globe with a diameter of 30 cm, which were published in 1705, the year of his death, and only a few copies of which have survived. The Viennese publisher Nebehay produced facsimiles of these globes in 1958. Cf. literature: Allmayer-Beck, Modelle der Welt, Brandstätter 1997, p. 260 and Fauser, Ältere Erd- und Himmelsgloben in Bayern, 1964, p. 90ff. A terrestrial globe after Georg Christoph Eimmart. Nuremberg 1705, facsimile Christian Nebehay, Vienna 1958, signed "L.F., Cum Geographica Orbis, Terrarum Descriptio secundum, ., Usui Tuo exhibemus. Norimbergae apud G.C. Eimartum. Ao. Chr. 1705",12 printed and hand-colored globe gores mounted on plaster and cardboard sphere, graduated meridian circle, hour circle, four-legged wooden stand, the horizon with paper calendar showing the seasons, compass directions, zodiac, days and months. Diameter c. 30 cm, height c. 47 cm.
